Andreessen on the Browser Wars

Pauly writes "In this interview, Marc Andreessen dismisses the likelihood of a renewed browser war based on the release of Mozilla 1.0. He cites Microsoft's current monopolistic market share, and dares anyone to try and fight it."

Comments

Interviewer is a dolt

[mlinksva]

Let's see, Opera is open source and Andreessen joined Netscape early. The first is totally false, the second is of secondary importance. Andreessen co-wrote Mosaic. Guess IDG reporters don't remember that. What other stupid errors can you spot?

IE troll hole

[twitter]

Verizon Guy says, IE rocks, Netscape sucks, then takes swing at Larry Ellison. Looks like flame bait to me, but that's nothing new from the Verizon Guy.

here he distracts the reader's amusment from M$ including actual viruses on their CDs with a swipe at BIND.
here he tells us Lindows is second rate.
here is a real gem, where he calls free software advocates stupid, retarded and pubic hairless. Nice.
here we have a pure flame that was moderated well.

Well, there you have it, a typical M$ loudmouth. The man must mod himself.

Re:Doesn't this sound realistic?

[Zeinfeld]

I bet browsers did run really well on your 1992 workstations, since the first graphical browser [uiuc.edu] wasn't released until late 1993

I wrote a browser in 1992.

Marc's was not the first by a long shot, it was the first browser for motif that used the motif look and feel. Before Mosaic there were browsers but they mostly looked awful.

The big innovation in Mosaic was not the images, it was the forms. Images were cute but at the time there wasn't that much bandwidth (The whole of CERN had a T1). It was adding the forms that opened up a whole new area of capability.